Restaurants

Industry Overview

Restaurant operators are expanding aggressively, leveraging both ground-up construction and second-generation spaces to move faster and maximize returns. Whether it’s fine dining, quick service restaurants, or large-scale national rollouts, success depends on a contractor who can deliver speed, consistency, and reliability.

Texana Builders stands apart as the general contractor of choice for restaurant projects. We specialize in fine dining, QSR, and national brand rollouts, bringing a deep understanding of prototype execution, tight schedules, and multi-location scalability. Our clients choose Texana because we don’t just build projects—we help them grow.

Navigating the Industry

Common Challenges

The challenges for many of these restaurant operators is being able to work with a contractor that has restaurant experience and is able to handle the high amount coordination necessary to successfully build a restaurant. Restaurant operates also need a company large enough to meet their growth needs and build in multiple locations they have.

Texana Solutions

Texana brings an enormous amount experience to their restaurant clients with having built over 100 restaurants. Texana also has multiple offices within Texas and the staff necessary to meet their growth needs. Texana’s restaurant knowledge is unmatched and gives us the ability to allow our clients to avoid pitfalls.

Restaurant Projects

Project image featuring federal american grill interior showing close up of bar

Federal American Grill River Oaks

Entrance to Zaranda restaurant at dusk with a lit ZARANDA sign, glass storefront, wood slat canopy and planters of cacti

Zaranada

Corner view of a white stucco restaurant building with a red tile roof, glowing arched openings, wall lanterns and a hanging sign at dusk

Latuli Restaurant

View through open glass doors into the Credence entry, with a wood host stand, gold arches, potted plants, a brass globe chandelier and the name in the tile floor

Credence & Side Bar

Bar Bludorn brick storefront at dusk with a lit wood door, a black awning, large black-framed windows and planters with tall grasses

Bar Bludorn

Chili's exterior at dusk with a lit red sign above the entry and an empty parking lot

Chili’s – Multiple Locations

Bojangles building with its yellow and red pole sign in the foreground and a blue sky

Bojangles – Manor

Taco Bell exterior with a purple and tan entry, glass doors and high-rise buildings behind it

Taco Bell – Multiple Locations

Daddy's Chicken Shack storefront with a stucco facade, metal awning and glass doors under a blue sky

Daddy’s Chicken

The Pit Room

Artisans restaurant at dusk with a lit neon script sign, a covered arched patio with a black metal trellis, a round window and an orange-glowing entry door

Artisans

Dish Society entrance with a yellow tile facade and gold sign, brick patio with umbrellas, patio heaters and tall planters, and a wood bench in front of glass windows

Dish Society – Mueller

Palace Social Bellaire shoe and merchandise counter under a curved blue soffit, with a yellow Good Times Begin Here wall script, a snack display case, and lit glass cabinets showing team jerseys

Palace Social

Loro Heights restaurant at dusk with a tall gabled wood-slat dining hall at left with a Now Open banner, a red brick building with arched openings, a patio with hanging egg chairs and a large bare tree

Loro Heights

Jonathan’s the Rub

Private wine room at Kiran's Restaurant with floor-to-ceiling mahogany racks and cabinets, a rolling ladder, a live-edge wood table and a crystal chandelier

Kiran’s Restaurant

Wide crop of the Mia's storefront with a Now Hiring sign beside a Torchy's building, with colorful letter sculptures spelling CITY and painted accessible parking spaces

Metronational

Federal Grill Hedwig dining area along an exposed brick wall with gold-framed mirrors and globe wall sconces, a long tufted tan leather banquette, white-topped tables with dark chairs and wood plank floors

Federal Grill – Hedwig

Federal Grill bar area with high-top tables and leather-seat stools in the foreground, a long wood bar with a white top, a wall of backlit liquor shelves, brick columns, exposed ductwork and string lights

Federal Grill – Woodlands

Federal American Grill Katy exterior across a wide concrete parking lot with red striped curbs, the white brick building and flag tower in the distance, and a young tree and landscaped island in the foreground

Federal Grill – Katy

Escalantes entrance with glass double doors framed in blue patterned tile and a dark pergola overhead, wall lanterns, the Escalantes sign on a stone wall, a brick paver walkway, two stone benches and blue ceramic fountains

Escalantes

Splendora Cafe and BBQ side view with red siding, a limestone base, wood-trimmed windows, a metal roof and entry door, a grassy landscaped strip and blue accessible parking spaces in the foreground

Splendora Cafe

Red Board Tavern dining room with tables set with white linens and red runners, schoolhouse and amber pendant lights, black steel columns, an arched window and the bar along the right wall

Red Board Tavern

Dimly lit lounge with reclaimed wood plank walls, leather armchairs, striped sofas, low round tables, a chess board and a backgammon table, black pendant lights and framed cocktail prints

Giesel House

Industrial conveyor dishwasher in a commercial kitchen with a blue wash chamber, a yellow foam-spiked loading belt, a stainless exhaust hood overhead and a floor drain on a blue epoxy floor

121 In Flight Catering

Starbucks – Round Rock

Starbucks Westheimer building with a tan stone facade and white Starbucks sign, a black pergola-style canopy over a fenced patio, landscaped planting beds and an empty parking lot under a bright blue sky

Starbucks – Westheimer

Starbucks Park Row cafe with round wooden tables and chairs in the foreground, high-top tables along the order counter, a lit pastry case and menu boards, and recessed lighting along a herringbone tile wall

Starbucks – Park Row

Starbucks Memorial cafe with people working on laptops and chatting at round tables, a long wooden communal table and orange leather lounge chairs, under a ceiling of wood slats with a coffee display on the back wall

Starbucks – Memorial

Trenza dining area with red upholstered chairs at wooden and zinc-topped tables, bar stools along a window wall, and a wall-mounted television above a striped plank floor

Trenza

Commercial kitchen at 60 Degrees Mastercrafted with a cook prepping at a stainless steel counter, a row of heat lamps overhead, stacked plates on shelves and other cooks working in the back

60 Degrees Mastercrafted

Torchy's Tacos corner storefront framed by a large oak tree, with a glowing orange Torchys Tacos sign, a red and white chevron wall and a fenced patio beside the parking lot

Torchy’s Tacos RV

Starbucks Kuykendahl outdoor patio with round black tables, gray woven chairs and a high-top table under a dark slatted canopy with linear heaters, beside a glass storefront and brick wall

Starbucks – Kuykendahl

Salata – Baybrook

Salata Energy Corridor storefront with an oval Create Your Own Salata sign above a black awning and glass entry, three cars parked in front, a green lamp post and a large live oak tree beside a wood-railed patio

Salata – Energy Corridor

Salata Vintage Park salad line with a long wood counter and angled sneeze guards over trays of fresh toppings, staff preparing orders, menu panels on the wall and green pendant lights over the dining room beyond

Salata – Vintage Park

Pizaro's Pizza dining room with long dark wood tables and cream metal chairs, pendant lights hanging from wood beams, framed pizza photos on the wall, and floor-to-ceiling windows facing the parking lot

Pizaro’s Pizza

Jenni's Noodle House outdoor patio with wood-top tables, metal chairs and blue umbrellas on paved stone, a sriracha bottle on the nearest table, and a landscaped grass bed with river rock beside the building

Jenni’s Noodle House – Richmond

Jenni’s Noodle House – Post Oak

MidiCi Kirby Grove entry vestibule with a black host stand, leather waiting chairs, a bench and small table, potted plants, a photo wall, and glass walls and doors looking out to trees and the street

MidiCi Kirby Grove

Dish Society Katy curved bar with a white fluted front and dark barstools, a back bar with yellow planters and shelves, a wall TV, a raised planter shelf of greenery overhead and wood tables with yellow chairs on a light plank floor

Dish Society – Katy

Dish Society Heights two-story building at dusk with the Dish Society sign over a glass storefront, a wood slat screen on the upper level, yellow chairs on the sidewalk and parking spaces including an accessible space in front

Dish Society – Heights

Dish Society Bellaire seating area with a long tan channel-tufted banquette, wood tables with green chairs, a wall of geometric patterned tile and a large green-framed mirror beneath a wood ceiling soffit

Dish Society – Bellaire

Artisan's private dining table with a white tablecloth, wine glasses and folded napkins, tufted leather chairs, a red wood wine rack and tall windows

Artisan’s

Open kitchen at Bramble where cooks work behind a counter while guests stand and sit nearby, under a reclaimed wood ceiling hung with amber glass pendant lights

Bramble

Rendering of the Coterie bar with a glowing neon sign over a blue tile wall, a wraparound counter with tan barstools, a glass wine cellar and tropical leaf wallpaper

Coterie

Pei Wei

Gatlin's BBQ dining room with wood tables and metal chairs, a reclaimed wood wall with a wall-mounted TV, the ordering counter and Houston graphic wall in the background, and black pendant lights overhead

Gatlin’s BBQ

Smoothie King order counter with stacks of cups, straws and lids, a trash can, shelves of retail products, hanging promotional banners and a glass entry door onto the parking lot, with a restroom sign on the left wall

Smoothie King – 222R

Smoothie King Missouri City interior under construction with a curved wood-front counter with a white top, three green pendant lights, empty white shelving, a glass-door cooler and an unfinished ceiling

Smoothie King – Missouri City

Marriott Riverwalk lobby cafe seen across the tile floor, with a wood-clad column holding a digital screen, two self-service kiosks and a bistro table at the market entrance, and an open doorway to the coffee bar

Marriott Riverwalk

Crew in bright green safety shirts and hard hats standing on a freshly poured concrete slab in front of a light-gauge steel framed commercial building under construction

Chili’s Royse City – Under Construction

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